Would Paleoalgorithmics not just be the exploration of ancient algorithms?
Here we are taking modern code and teleporting it back in time. Or perhaps rather taking hardware back to the future. Clearly it should be called DeLoreanithmics.
In the sense they're used as English prefixes, paleo is many orders of magnitude older than archeo. Hence words like "paleoarchaeology", which starts around 10kya.
This is a bit of cheating. It’s using a C64C - with its fancy refresh of the hardware. Not that there was any material differences in anything that matters, but the molded plastic case difference is definitely something to consider.
I think this shows something more important: we are not hardware limited. There's no reason someone could not have implemented this 40 years ago. Our hardware is way beyond our research.
I didn't know how to create a general intelligence, but however it's done will probably be something an undergrad could implement in a week using a desktop computer in 2024.
> No reliance on something like OpenAI is needed, though the "probabilistic PCA algorithm" running on the Commodore 64 used for this project was actually trained on a modern computer. So while the model runs on Commodore 64 as advertised, a modern PC was still needed to get this up and running to begin with.
